Hooligans, You Might want to Leave your Fingerprints at Home

By: Bob | January 25th, 2007

hooligan-finerprints.jpgTechnology is a grand thing. The same tools that are being used to nab those dreaded terrorist at international borders are now being used in the battle against an even greater threat: football hooligans. Officials at a match in Amsterdam today are testing biometric scanning devices that can scan the fingerprints of fans entering a stadium and determine the evildoers from the non evildoers. The equipment is being used at the home grounds of Ajax, Vitesse, and Feyenoord, a club that should have plenty of time to build its database of known hooligans now that they have been booted from the UEFA Cup for fan misbehavior.




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  • Martha |  January 25th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

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    Is that picture from the penis tattoo story?

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  • Michael |  March 13th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

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    Bad news

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